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Soft Targets

Soft Targets

by Dean Ing

1979Fiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, thrillers, espionageHakim arif (fictitious character), fiction
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Still naked and sleep-fogged after his morning coffee, the wire-muscled little man retrieved his attaché case from his pillowslip and placed it with reverence on the apartment's sleazy table.

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Fiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, thrillers, espionageHakim arif (fictitious character), fiction
First published 1979

About the author

Dean Ing

17 June 1931 – 21 July 2020

Author

Dean Ing

First published

1979

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Ace Books

ISBN

9780812519471

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